Book reviews atPhysicsToday: Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse; God and the Multiverse: Humanity’s Expanding View of the Cosmos

The multiverse has recently become a popular topic in science and literature. A recent Google search for “multiverse” returned more than 7.7 million results. A similar search on Amazon.com yielded 3264 items, among them 1213 books, including the two under review: Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein and God and the Multiverse: Humanity’s Expanding View of the Cosmos by Victor Stenger (who died in August 2014). They provide nice complementary accounts of multiverse ideas, though neither gives an adequate treatment of the current science in the field.